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Medical Angel Investors

Admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:42:30 +0000

As with any investor, it can be expected that an angel investor would only put his money into a business that would provide the least risk on his investment. This is reflected in the investment decisions that such an investor would make, especially in the types of products or services that a business provides. Usually, angel investors invest in businesses that have the potential for long-term profitability. In recent years, the preference of angel investors has been in medical devices and medical related services, including medical billing services.

As a result, entrepreneurs who opt to go into businesses that make medical devices and provide medical related services have found it a little bit easier to get the interest of angel investors. However, this does not mean that anyone who decides to go into these kinds of businesses would get an angel investor to invest just like that, as there are things that entrepreneurs need to do first before they can sign a deal with an angel investor.

What angel investors look for

Apart from a presenting a potentially profitable product or service, businessmen need to prepare a number of things and equip themselves with a number of skills that would increase their chances of landing a deal with an angel investor. Among these skills, one of the most important is competent management skills. In addition to this, an entrepreneur needs a good business plan, which identifies the size of the market, the competitive advantage of his business, and financial forecasts.

On the other hand, there are also a number of things that entrepreneurs should avoid when they are presenting their business concept to an angel investor. Some of these include and having unrealistic valuations for the purpose of making his business more attractive. This is because angel investors are very astute businessmen, and they can tell if you are trying to fool them. If they catch you doing it, you can kiss their investment goodbye.

Recently, angel investors have become very interested in the medical field, which has made it easier for entrepreneurs who are in the field to gain access to capital. However, even if an entrepreneur is in the right type of business, there are still a number of things that an entrepreneur needs to prepare and skills that he has to learn before he can land an investment deal with an angel investor.

Investors Community: Spend Wise and Make Good Money

Admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:38:11 +0000

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Where and how much to invest? For how long to invest? Such stock option is beneficial or not? Such share would provide profit or not? Like these many questions disturb investors. Nowadays people are opting for investors community to get answer of such questions. You would be doing a lot of discussions before opting for a particular investment and any such community serve this purpose in a nice manner as open discussions help a lot and on these online communities you can do a lot of open discussions. If you are planning to buy a particular stock option and you have some confusions regarding its business credibility, then you can discuss this issue which can be of great help to you.

An online investors community facilitate open discussions and makes your decision taking a little bit easier. You can get precious and valuable advices through these communities and you can also involve in open discussions which prove to be good in the long run. You can post your question and get answers through such community. This function is really good if you are new in the financial market. It is essential for you to know the basics of stock trading and online trading and in that case an investors community help a lot. These communities also provide an opportunity for you to network with other like minded business people.

So, this is the opportunity to learn a lot about investment and trading. Discussions help a lot in taking wise financial decisions so discuss through investors community.

By: David Jose

How Listening to the Guru’s Almost Got This Investor Thrown Into Jail

Admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:16:47 +0000

I thought I’d heard it all when it comes to real estate investing stories until I heard this one!

I was speaking with one of my real estate investing student’s the other day and he told me a frightening story.

Here it is, in his own words:

“When I began investing in real estate

he was somewhat clueless! Granted, I had definitely done my homework by researching everything related to real estate that I could get my hands on, but I was still desperate to do deals with little real world experience. The only thing I really knew was what I had read in the books and heard on the Guru courses I had listened to. A lot of this information is pretty good. As a matter of fact, most of it is pretty good. However, some of it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

For example, one of the first deals I ever did was a preforeclosure deal and I tried to apply one of the techniques I had learned from a pretty famous Guru. I will leave his name out, because it is unimportant.

Before we go any further with the story, let me just say that most of what I have learned about this technique before I tried to use it as well as after I used it point to the fact that it probably is not illegal. If it is illegal in any way, it is possibly a civil situation…..certainly not criminal! However, what counts is that the detective who looked at the case did in fact think it was criminal.

So, here goes……

The deal went something like this: I found a motivated seller from one of my marketing campaign who was in foreclosure. The seller had a little bit of equity but was 2 months behind on their mortgage payments. The only way I could see to make a deal out of this (remember, I was very new to investing) was to find a way to get control of this property and keep the loan in their name. So, using one of the techniques I learned from a Guru course, I talked the seller into giving me a lease on the property with an option to purchase it anytime I wanted within the next 2 years. I agreed to use my money to reinstate the loan if she would consider that money the option deposit.

The next thing I did was rush right out and start advertising that I had a house for sale and I would offer owner financing on it if someone had $7000 to put down. With that 7k, the monthly payment was going to be around $1300 or so per month. In other words, the buyers down payment got them in and their payments kept them in. That was it, no credit check or job verification required.

As you can imagine, my phone started ring right away with people who wanted to buy this house. So the first person to show up with 7k plus the first months payment got the house. I gave them a contract for deed, which is basically owner financing without formally transferring the deed into the buyers name, and then I took 2k from the buyers down payment and reinstated the loan. The paperwork said that the buyer had to refinance within 18 months or they lose the house.

This worked great for the first few months.

Here’s the short version of the rest of the story…..the loan got reinstated by me and then the original seller decided she wanted her house and equity back. So she hounded me and hounded me to try to get the house back. Of course, that just wasn’t going to happen. Finally, after the new buyer had been in the property for a couple of months, the seller came knocking on the front door while the new buyer was having dinner with her family from out of town…..showing off her new house!

OUCH!

So the seller and buyer decided that I must have done something illegal since the deed wasn’t actually in my name and yet I was “selling” the house to someone already. They ended up going down to the police department and talking to a detective who sided with them. The detective called me and told me that if I didn’t refund the down payment and walk away from the deal then the seller and buyer were going to

press charges on me.

WHAT? I hadn’t done anything wrong! I had a legal option to purchase the property and if/when the buyer went to refinance the house I was going to exercise my option. Legally this should be fine. However, the detective thought different. To make matters worse, the new buyer went and got an attorney, Pro Bono (free).

At this point I decided it just wasn’t worth it. I took some money I had from other deals I had done and refunded the buyers money. She then ended up buying the house from the owner at a HIGHER price than she would have with me.

WOW…smart move! Oh well, you win some, you lose some. I certainly learned a couple of valuable lessons from this experience.

First, you should never do anything without disclosing it to everyone.

Second, you should question everything you learn from Guru’s or anyone else for that matter.

Third, you should always protect yourself and everyone else involved in creative deals like this one by having a valid and proven exit strategy.

While what I did was probably not illegal (criminally), it could have turned into a pretty big mess. Let’s say I didn’t get thrown in jail because the detective was wrong…..I still would have ended up getting sued. Anyone can sue anyone for anything these days. Plus, if the buyer would have forced the issue and tried to refinance the house, I wouldn’t have been able to uphold my end of the bargain. I didn’t have the cash to close my end of the deal at the time and even if I would have, there would have been a chain of title issue which would have caused the deal to fall apart. In other words, the underwriter doing the loan for the new buyer would have seen that I only legally owned the house for a few minutes and they wouldn’t have funded the deal.”

So, the moral to this story is, of course, be very careful who you take your advice from and always do your due-diligence before you go jumping into your first deal. Get a teacher you know you can trust and your investing career should be in good shape.

Keep your eyes open for my next email. I will share some more fun and exciting real estate lessons that will hopefully help you toward a successful career as an investor.

By: Sean Flanagan